Innovation speakers are visionary thinkers who embrace disruption in the marketplace. They tap into creative ways to solve our problems, reimagine business and marketing strategy, spark thought leadership, and breathe life into new product development.
Suneel Gupta
<p>Suneel Gupta asks audiences, leaders and teams: “How can an organization excel on the outside if its people are exhausted on the inside?”</p><p>As the founding CEO of RISE, a breakthrough wellness company, Suneel Gupta helped thousands of people build better habits for life and work. Now as a bestselling author and Harvard Medical School visiting scholar, Suneel has taken his mission one step further – helping people achieve sustainable peak performance by bolstering emotional resilience and engagement.
Dan Heath
<p><em>NYT Times Bestselling Author</em>, Dan Heath offers a breadth of expertise to teach audiences at any level how to lead successful change, make communication stickier, and improve their decision-making skills.</p><p>Dan Heath is the co-author, along with his brother Chip, of four long-running bestsellers: <em>Made to Stick</em>,<em> Switch</em>, <em>Decisive</em>, and <em>The Power of Moments</em>. The Heath Brothers’ books have sold over three million copies worldwide and been translated into 33 languages.
Kate O'Neill
<p>Kate O’Neill is a digital innovator, chief executive, business writer, and globally recognized speaker widely known as the “Tech Humanist.” She is the founder and CEO of KO Insights, a strategic advisory firm that enhances human experiences at scale through data-driven and AI-led interactions.
Robert Richman
<p>Robert Richman is a culture strategist and was the co-creator of Zappos Insights, an innovative program focused on educating companies on the secrets behind Zappos’ amazing employee culture.</p><p>Robert built Zappos Insights from a small website to a thriving multi-million dollar business teaching over 25,000 students per year.
Rachel Tobac
<p>Rachel is an ethical hacker and CEO of SocialProof Security where she helps people and companies keep their data and money safe from social engineering threats.</p><p>A winner of DEFCON's wild spectator sport, the Social Engineering ‘Capture the Flag’ contest, she was also one of the first to correctly predict and unpack the infamous 2020 Twitter hack in real time while providing recommendations to the public to help other organizations avoid disastrous social engineering attacks in the future.
Sekou Andrews
<p>Called “the de facto poet laureate of corporate America” by Forbes, Sekou Andrews helps the world’s largest organizations deliver relevant information with riveting inspiration through an innovative, unconventional category of speaking called “Poetic Voice.”</p><p>Imagine harnessing the power of an engaging opening video, an electric closing performance, and an insightful main stage keynote all in one dynamic presentation.
Omar Johnson
<p>Omar Johnson is a marketing and branding keynote speaker, entrepreneur, former CMO at Beats by Dre, and former VP Marketing at Apple. At Beats Electronics, Johnson was responsible for brand development, advertising, retail experience, entertainment/sports marketing, and digital marketing for all global brand marketing and advertising efforts.
Nancy Giordano
<p>Described as endlessly optimistic, Nancy is a strategic futurist with a drive to help enterprise organizations and visionary leaders transform to meet the escalating expectations ahead.
Heather McGowan
<p>Future-of-work strategist Heather E. McGowan helps leaders prepare their people and organizations for the Augmented Era– where the greatest competitive advantage comes from optimizing human performance. </p><p>As a keynote speaker, Heather gives lucidity to complex topics through her research rich, graphic frameworks, and powerful metaphors. LinkedIn ranked her as its #1 global voice for education and was listed as one of the Top 50 Female Futurists in <em>Forbes</em>.
Marissa Orr
<p>Marissa Orr is the author of the bestseller<i> Lean Out: The Truth About Women, Power, & The Workplace</i>. On stage, Orr draws from her book and her successful 15-year career inside Google and Facebook to ask the question few have the nerve to ask: What have we gotten wrong about women at work?</p><p>With career-altering experiences inside two of Silicon Valley’s leading tech giants, Orr shares her views on women at work, structural norms and teamwork.